Alfons Wilding

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Alfons Wilding (2016)

Alfons Wilding (born February 21, 1944 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German civil rights activist and author.

Education and emigration

Wilding grew up as the son of a pastor, completed training as a nurse and studied human medicine at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . He developed a critical stance towards the GDR early on and tried twice to flee to West Germany in the mid-1970s. He was convicted of fleeing the republic under Paragraphs 100 and 213 of the GDR Criminal Code and was placed in strict solitary confinement in the Rote Ochsen .

Stasi acts of repression and disintegration in the sense of deliberate psychological terror followed. During the following 16 months in the Cottbus prison , he was forced to do forced labor for a major Dresden camera manufacturer. After the GDR's citizenship was revoked by the Minister of State Security Erich Mielke , he was able to emigrate to the FRG in October 1976 by means of the West German ransom .

Social work

In 1983, the Ministry of Justice of Rhineland-Palatinate gave him the medical management of the Diez prison for several years.

He and relatives reported in the TV documentary "We were böse" about the time they experienced in bondage. In the period from 2001 to 2003 the film was broadcast several times. In 2006, a public lecture took place in the “Red Ox Memorial” in Halle an der Saale . In 2015 the author wrote an extensive personal detention report as well as a socio-political and ideological analysis of the GDR system under the title “Die Welt des MERKUR 3” and commented on the church opposition in the GDR.

In 2016, the film director Heiner Sylvester interviewed him on the subject of forced labor in prison on behalf of the "Human Rights Center of the Cottbus Memorial Site". In an interactive exhibition, the center aims to provide a democratically minded population with political education for freedom, human dignity and the protection of human rights.

In the mid-1990s, he founded the “Citizens Against Inner-City People” initiative in the new Hesse-Nassau homeland. He belonged to the active part of the citizens' movement and was in charge of media work, which led to numerous newspaper articles (including in "Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung" and "Nassauische Neue Presse"), round tables, information leaflets and vigils between 1997 and 2003. Citizens from Diez and the surrounding area tried to legally enforce a revision of the development plan for the Dutch Quarter in Diez by taking legal action before the Federal Administrative Court. The 4th Senate of the BVG Leipzig did not allow the Diez development plan to be revised.

literature

  • “The historical Diez on the banks of the Lahn and Aar then and now” - New considerations and findings on Diezer Neustadt and the problem of “inner-city traffic management”, Diez / Lahn, 1999
  • "The world of MERKUR 3" - Experiences and reflections of a medical doctor during and after the Stasi period - Frankfurt am Main, RG Fischer Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8301-1692-9
  • "Forced labor in the Cottbus prison - Homo res sacra hominis" - document from the documentation center "Human Rights Center Cottbus eV", Nuremberg, 2016

Movie

  • "The story of a failed escape in the middle of Germany", TV documentary, WDR by Holger Kulick (Editor Heribert Schwan)
  • “Gedenkstätte Menschenrechtezentrum Cottbus eV”, interview with eyewitnesses by Heiner Sylvester on the subject of forced labor in the Cottbus prison

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BStU-Fachbibliothek Berlin, call number no. 15/0391
  2. ↑ "Forced Labor in Cottbus Prison - Homo res sacra hominis" - document from the Documentation Center "Human Rights Center Cottbus eV", Nuremberg, 2016
  3. ^ Rehlinger, LA: "Freikauf" - The GDR's business with politically persecuted people 1963-1989. Publishing house Ullstein, Berlin u. Frankfurt am Main, 1991.
  4. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: “A film about a failed escape” - lecture at the “Roter Ochse” memorial, Halle (Saale) on October 24, 2006
  5. ↑ Schwan, H .: "fear of death - how a flight fails", in press kit WDR, http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7899/278705
  6. ↑ Federal Administrative Court of Leipzig, 4th Senate: "Innerstädtische Verkehrsführung in Diez ...", B. Verw. G 4 BN48 02 (OVG 1C 11563/00)
personal data
SURNAME Wilding, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil rights activist and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)